Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Good software, like wine, takes time.
Joel Spolsky
90% of everything is crap
Sturgeon's Revelation
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Brian Kernighan
80 percent of my problems are simple logic errors. 80 percent of the remaining problems are pointer errors. The remaining problems are hard.
Mark Donner, IBM Watson Research Center
The third version is the first version that doesn't suck.
Mike Simpson
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
I get as much enjoyment from trashing code as I do from scratching it out in the first place!
Anonymous
There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: the computer industry and the drug trade.
Edward Tufte
Computer programmers don't byte, they nibble a bit.
Anonymous
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
Alan J. Perlis